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Ayatallah Khameini
was an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution -
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Truman's Plan (Doctrin)
The Trumans Plan Stated that the U.S would support Greece and Turkey when the Soviets were trying to expland their terratory -
Containment
The US policy of containment came at the start of the cold war between the US and the USSR and as tensions increased. -
Marshel's Plan
Europe was devistated during the cold war. Marshal Plan Nations were assisted greatly in their economic recovery. -
Berlin Blockade And Airlift
in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. -
Apartheid
Arpartheid was a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Domino Theory
The domino theory which governed much of U.S. foreign policy beginning in the early 1950s, -
Korean war
The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea, South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. The Korean Peninsula was ruled by the Empire of Japan from 1910 until the end of World Wa -
Vietnam War
was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
Great leap forward
The People's Republic of China was an economi and social campain of the Communist Party in China. -
Opec
It is an oil cartel whose mission is to coordinate the policies of the oil-producing countries -
Bay of Pigs
"Bay Of Pigs" was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba tht was underaken by the group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961 -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War -
1972 Olympics/Palestine terrorist
was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, -
Watergate
Watergate was a political scan that occurred in the United States in the 1970s. -
Camp David Accord
Camp David Accord were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following thirteen days of secret negotiations -
Iran Hostage Situation
The Iran Hostage was a crisis between Iran and the United States -
Perestraile and Glasnost
was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -
Tiemanmma Square Massacre
Also known as the "June 5th Incident" were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing in the spring of 1989 that received broad support from city residents and exposed deep splits within China's political leadership but were forcibly suppressed by hardline leaders..
